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Localization of Metal Electrodes in the Intact Rat Brain Using Registration of 3D Microcomputed Tomography Images to a Magnetic Resonance Histology Atlas

Jana Schaich Borg, Mai-Anh Vu, Cristian Badea, Alexandra Badea, G. Allan Johnson and Kafui Dzirasa
eNeuro 2 July 2015, 2 (4) ENEURO.0017-15.2015; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0017-15.2015
Jana Schaich Borg
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Mai-Anh Vu
2Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
3Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Cristian Badea
4Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
5Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
6Department of Medical Physics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Alexandra Badea
4Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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G. Allan Johnson
4Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
5Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
6Department of Medical Physics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
7Department of Physics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Kafui Dzirasa
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
2Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
5Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
8Center for Neuroengineering, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0017-15.2015
PubMed 
26322331
Published By 
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History 
  • Received February 26, 2015
  • Revision received June 19, 2015
  • Accepted June 23, 2015
  • Published online July 2, 2015.
Copyright & Usage 
Copyright © 2015 Schaich Borg et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

Author Information

  1. Jana Schaich Borg1,*,
  2. Mai-Anh Vu2,3,*,
  3. Cristian Badea4,5,6,
  4. Alexandra Badea4,
  5. G. Allan Johnson4,5,6,7 and
  6. Kafui Dzirasa1,2,5,8
  1. 1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
  2. 2Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
  3. 3Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
  4. 4Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
  5. 5Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
  6. 6Department of Medical Physics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
  7. 7Department of Physics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
  8. 8Center for Neuroengineering, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Kafui Dzirasa, 361 Bryan Research Building, 311 Research Drive, Durham, NC 27710. E-mail: kafui.dzirasa{at}duke.edu.
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Author contributions

  1. ↵2 Author Contributions: J.S.B. designed research, performed surgeries and histology, analyzed data, and wrote the paper with input from M.-A.V., C.B., A.B., G.A.J., and K.D. M.-A.V. designed research, performed registration with input from J.S.B., and analyzed data. C.B. performed the CT scans and CT image preprocessing. A.B. advised registration approach. G.A.J. advised overall imaging strategy and registration approach. K.D. advised surgical and histology strategies, and oversaw all experiments.

  2. ↵* J.S.B. and M.-A.V. contributed equally to this work.

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Disclosures

  • ↵1 The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • ↵3 This work is supported by Duke University Exploratory Research Fund (C.B. and G.A.J.), NIA K01-AG041211 (A.B.), Duke Center for In Vivo Microscopy (National Institutes of Health–National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering P41 EB015897), IMHRO RSA (K.D.), Duke University SOM startup funds (K.D.), and National Science Foundation (NSF) DGF1106401 (M.-A.V.). This work also used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by NSF grant ACI-1053575. We thank James Cook (Center for In Vivo Microscopy, Duke University) for his help with scanning and Rainbo Hultman and Stephen Mague (Duke University) for providing their anatomical expertise to evaluate the described registration method.

Funding

  • National Institute on Aging

    K01-AG041211
  • National Institute of Health

    P41 EB015897
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship

    DGF1106401
  • Duke University Exploratory Research Fund

  • IMHRO RSA

  • Duke University School of Medicine startup funds

  • Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)

    ACI-1053575

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eNeuro 2 July 2015, 2 (4) ENEURO.0017-15.2015; DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0017-15.2015

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eNeuro 2 July 2015, 2 (4) ENEURO.0017-15.2015; DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0017-15.2015
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